Eating for you type

[Pull~My~Hair]

Has anyone read this book or followed your blood type diet? Im starting to do it. Just curious if anyone else has had any success. Not for just weight loss but just for energy levels and everything in general.

[Extempus]

I try to stick to it. I'm type O, and the worst possible thing we can eat is flour, ie, wheat gluten. I've been off it for nearly 2 years (I lost 10 pounds within a month or so of quitting), and just about all of my problems have vanished. In fact, whenever I slack a little and eat some, I gain weight and it takes days to lose it (I did an experiment early last month and ate wheat 4 days in a row, and gained over 5 pounds... took a few weeks to lose that!).

All in all, I think it's a good diet, and it works for me...

[Pull~My~Hair]

good to know..im A and it says I shouldnt eat red meat...i love meat...but im gonna try it

[Extempus]

All things in moderation... eat some, but not a lot. With the wheat, however, I have to be very careful... for instance, I recently discovered it's what was giving me canker sores all of my life (that 4 day experiment just proved it)!

[badkittyamy]

I eat whatever I want and exercise, problem solved

[Mindgames]

*bangs head against wall*

Utter, raging, ulcerated balls. Blood type has no bearing whatsoever on digestion, prevalence of disease or metabolism of nutrients - if it did mammals would have selected out all but one blood type tens of millions of years ago. It's a diet that makes you lose weight because it tells you to cut out food groups, just the same as saying "you have green eyes. Don't eat after 3pm or you'll turn into a chicken" makes you lose weight. The guy that invented the diet admits happily that there's no scientific evidence it works or physiologically-valid reason it ever should.

Read this: http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/food-for-your-blood

Yanno, I'm all for the idea the human race has potential, but when stuff like this gets promotion as 'science' I start wondering if any of you went to school.

[Cafe_Post_Mortem]

They lost me the second they said I couldn't drink black tea.

I am curious, for anyone who has read the book. Does it get into how he determined which food are right for which blood types? His website makes it seem like he just watched people.

On the dieting note, the success of most diets seems to come from the fact that they make you pay attention to what you eat. Before you start a diet, try just tracking what you eat all day for a few weeks. It will help more than you think.

[Extempus]

*bangs head against wall*

Utter, raging, ulcerated balls. Blood type has no bearing whatsoever on digestion, prevalence of disease or metabolism of nutrients - if it did mammals would have selected out all but one blood type tens of millions of years ago. It's a diet that makes you lose weight because it tells you to cut out food groups, just the same as saying "you have green eyes. Don't eat after 3pm or you'll turn into a chicken" makes you lose weight. The guy that invented the diet admits happily that there's no scientific evidence it works or physiologically-valid reason it ever should.

Yanno, I'm all for the idea the human race has potential, but when stuff like this gets promotion as 'science' I start wondering if any of you went to school.

Actually, not only have I studied physics, chemistry, engineering science, history and other things, I have a degree also. Before you bang your head against the wall, I suggest you read Dr. Peter D'Adamo's Eat Right 4 Your Type and try it out. But I've seen it for myself... as soon as I quit eating the single worst thing a Type O can eat (wheat gluten), everything changed... I lost weight without even trying, my digestive problems vanished, I have more energy, and my canker sores have even stopped... funny that (and before you tell me it's psychosomatic, that's something I found out only a month or so back, long after they stopped. He doesn't mention it in his book, which I read many years ago).

Oh, and your statement, "Blood type has no bearing whatsoever on digestion, prevalence of disease or metabolism of nutrients," reminds me of a story a client of mine once related to me many years ago. She had asked her doctor if her diet might be affecting her in a negative way, and her doctor angrily retorted, "What you eat has absolutely nothing to do with your health!" She thanked him, sought a second opinion, and never went to that first doctor again.

I've tried the diet, I've seen the results, and it works. A true scientist puts things to the test, they don't rail against it just because it offends their preconceived (and often indoctrinated) notions.

[Donald Rilea]

Well, before I try the diet, I'd have to find out what my blood type is!!!! LOL

Yep, am one of those sad souls who doesn't know his blood type.

Hey, it happens.

[Cafe_Post_Mortem]

I've tried the diet, I've seen the results, and it works. A true scientist puts things to the test, they don't rail against it just because it offends their preconceived (and often indoctrinated) notions.

Not to knock your results, but is it possible you had issues with wheat glutens unrelated to your bloodtype?

Which brings me back to my question. Does eat right for your type get into the science of the diet and how they came up with it?

[Mindgames]

Extempus:-

Point one: Not that you would have any reason to know, but I trump your 'degree' by another ten years and in the correct field to comment on this topic. History and physics in high school are laudable subjects and no doubt broaden your abilities in Trivial Pursuit, but have a minimal impact on your knowledge of the MHCII-IgM activity of erythrocytes. I presume however that your reading of the book informed you there are 29 blood groupings and no reason why the ABO-carbohydrate model should be any more important than GIL grouping which is mediated on the same chromosome locus. Are you also dieting based on your Landsteiner-Wiener type?

Point two: There is, as I stated, no clinical association of blood grouping to digestion and metabolism unless you transfuse the wrong type and kill someone before they've finished eating a burrito. The only conjecture at this time is the association (at about a 25% variance) of malarial resistance to typing in endemic regions of sub-Saharan Africa, which is a coincidental molecular mimicry process and not a physiopathological adaption.

Point three: "A true scientist puts things to the test" is indeed my point - Adamo's work has never included clinical trials, no control groups and no independent verification, and his theory of how the process works is resoundingly refuted by the medical profession as snake-oil with a modern twist. His 'evidence' the diet works is based on his family's observation of the fact people were told to eat less, and lost weight - the pretty graphs on his 'science' page show uncorroborated feedback from visitors to the website - not even measurements taken in a surgery. Of course someone on a diet that loses some weight will tick the box saying "I feel better" but I recall hearing the same phrase in Monty Python.

Point four: The fact that he is married to the owner of a supplement manufacturing company that provides products to support the blood-type diet is, I presume, entirely coincidental. Nepotism isn't dead, just showing a desire to wear denim and play the banjo.

[helcyon]

anecdotal evidence leaves me in no doubt whatsoever in the world that if you eat way less you'll get way thinner... as shockingly revolutionary as that may sound.

i'll put it another way... diet coke has a shitload more calories than nothing at all.

i'm serious... stop whining and start not eating... and i have at least a pre-school education which is enough to legitimise that mental breakthrough. I 100% guarantee that if you stick to that it's going to work... astoundingly. sure you might try and find flaws in that argument but you won't. if you haven't the mental discipline to do it well that's another story

if you really must look for a mystical weight-loss strategy or diet supplement consider meth-amphetamine which is a drug in search of a disease that found and fostered social problem. it's early use was for everything from depression to obesity to decongestion. perfect for the fat, unhappy, sleepy, snotty amongst us.

[Mindgames]

Liek.. OMG have you patented this?!??!?

anecdotal evidence leaves me in no doubt whatsoever in the world that if you eat way less you'll get way thinner... as shockingly revolutionary as that may sound.

[aXa]

my sister has a wheat gluten intolerance commonly know as "celiac disease." for her, cutting out wheat gluten from her diet made a HUGE difference for her overall health. i did some reading about it and many other people have reported positive results after cutting wheat gluten from their diets. never once was blood type mentioned. i dont think that wheat gluten is a problem because of one's blood type. its because your body has a problem processing the gluten.

[One Eyed Cat]

I also had some problems with glutens. It arose after I switched to a "diet" which has whole grains as the staple food (and has no scientific backing other than you can intake the recommended amounts of protein etc) . You lose weight on such diet simply due to reduced caloric intake. It really is that simple: Reduce caloric intake, calculate the proper levels of vitamins and mineral required daily, isolate types of food which adversely affect you (for me gluten and lactose both to only a minor to moderate extent.) Also, exercise. It's pretty gash darn basic

There is no evidence blood types have the effect being mentioned here. If someone would like to provide a peer-reviewed medical journal article, I would be interested to see it. Gluten + Jackie = Bad. Jackie = not Type O

JT

[Extempus]

Extempus:-

Point one: Not that you would have any reason to know, but I trump your 'degree' by another ten years and in the correct field to comment on this topic. History and physics in high school are laudable subjects and no doubt broaden your abilities in Trivial Pursuit, but have a minimal impact on your knowledge of the MHCII-IgM activity of erythrocytes.

While you may have more education in the correct field, the point I was making is that I'm hardly an idiot, I am actually highly educated, and I speak from experience regarding this diet. It works.... for me...

[Mindgames]

I don't doubt it did - and great for you - but my point is that the fact you changed your food intake and saw changes your health/weight/etc. doesn't mean that it's related to blood type. It's just as likely you cut out a particular item that you were incompatible with for other reasons (allergy, etc.) or simply lowered your calorie and saturated fat levels, and I presume you haven't tried the diet plans for the other blood groups in the book to see if they're all worse for you.

Causation and correlation are not the same thing and this book makes a fundamental mistake by assuming they are. Giving anyone instructions that are supposed to make them feel better and you'll activate the placebo effect even if the treatment is completely non-effective - we can control weight, psychological conditions, stress and even some diseases by giving out bottles of candy and calling them medicine, so if causation and correlation were the same thing, Jelly Belly jellybeans can cure more medical problems than aspirin. It doesn't do anyone any harm to use placebos unless you start to make those daft scientific claims stand as fact.

While you may have more education in the correct field, the point I was making is that I'm hardly an idiot, I am actually highly educated, and I speak from experience regarding this diet. It works.... for me...

[VoltaireBlue]

that diet is a load of hogwash. I am allergic to some of the things on my list for my blood type. I think it's just another fad diet.

[helcyon]

this reality may be a load of hogwash. this diet is pitifully insignificant. i re-iterate... staple your gut you first-world namby-pamby and do stuff like manage your nutrition and excersise. someone's got to as i don't.

i have an opinion not backed up by anything at all from an institution of learning, particularly, that stuff like wheat/lactose intolerance can sometimes be caused by feeding babies improperly in their first 1 or 2 years of life by introducing certain foods too early... talk to a specialist in allergins like i did once... i was happy enough to form my opinions thus and was very touchy about immunising my daughter until she was at least 12 months old for this reason... i was not keen on introducing nasty stuff into her body banking on the right kind of antibody response until her formative metabolism had got itself together a bit. yes not super scientific but one way or another she is a beautiful, healthy, intelligent young woman now so it didn't hurt it seems.